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A Thought For Your Day® :: Are You Having Fun Yet?

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun at what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie

What’s the best company you ever worked for? Perhaps it is where you are now? Maybe you own it.

Chances are, the reason for your choice is one simple ingredient that could be missing in many organizations today.

It’s something that business America is rediscovering the hard way.

As the story goes, there’s a word that a potential candidate must use to describe their future job at Dell Computers before they are even considered for the position.

That word is: Fun.

Apparently, the culture at Dell is built around a principle that more and more companies are subscribing to: A happy employee is a productive employee.

This comes at a time when the contentment level of the American worker is at an all-time low. A whopping 76% of those surveyed said they dislike their job.

While it’s easy to say, “If you don’t like something, don’t do it,” most feel they don’t really have choice.

They do.

The choice comes in making the best of the hand you’re holding while making plans for a new game all together. That choice comes from a change in attitude and a sense of vision.

While we all can’t work at Dell, Southwest Airlines, Disney, or Google, we can live in a world we build for ourselves. It is a world of the hope of a better tomorrow and a productive today. More importantly, it’s a world where work and fun are one in the same.